The peasant and the devil / the Brothers Grimm -- Boris Chernevsky's hands / Jane Yolen -- The hobgoblin's hat / Tove Jansson (from Finn family Moomintroll) -- Ully the piper / Andre Norton -- Milo conducts the dawn / Norton Juster (from The phantom tollbooth) -- Who goes down this dark road? / Joan Aiken -- The house of Harfang / C.S. Lewis (from The silver chair) -- Martha in the witch's power / K.M. Briggs (from Hobberdy Dick) -- Abu Ali meets a dragon / Noel Langley (from The land of green ginger) -- The box of delights / John Masefield (an extract) -- The amazing flight of the gump / L. Frank Baum (from The land of Oz) -- On the great wall / Rudyard Kipling (from Puck of Pook's Hill) -- The waking of the kraken / Eva Ibbotson (from Which witch?) -- The caves in the hills / Elizabeth Goudge (from Henrietta's house) -- Bigger than the baker's boy / E. Nesbit (from Five children and it) -- Jermain and the sorceress / Patricia C. Wrede (from The seven towers) -- Una and the red cross knight / Andrew Lang (from The red book of romance) -- What the cat told me / Diana Wynne Jones.